[cups-devel] Status of the 1.7 branch ?

[Michael Sweet]

Didier,

I'll investigate why the 1.7 git branch isn't tracking the svn branch. Per the roadmap page, you should expect 1.7.x releases every 6-8 weeks until 2.0 is final.

As for 2.0, I hope to start beta releases in a few months, with a release before October. That sounds like 2.0 will meet your deadline for Debian...

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> On Feb 23, 2014, at 10:11 AM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <odyx at debian.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Mike,
> 
> I'm a bit unclear with regards to the status of the 1.7 branch of cups, 
> specifically: 
> 
> * Are further 1.7.x releases planned? Until when?
> 
> As you might know, Debian releases "when it's ready", but history as 
> shown that stable releases have to be security-maintained for roughly 3 
> years (~2 years between stable releases, 1 year overlap). The current 
> plan is to freeze on 5. November 2014, with a release some months after 
> that; therefore supported approximately until 2018. We are interested to 
> know which CUPS branch should be shipped with our next stable release: 
> 1.7.x or 2.x? What do you envision?
> 
> * What is the status of the branch-1.7 on the git [0] ?
> 
> It's current revision corresponds to svn's r11429 and predates the 1.7.1 
> release. Are fixes committed to this branch but not pushed? It'd be 
> quite useful to have a public updated 1.7.x branch, to see what fixes 
> are included. Similarly, a timeline for future 1.7.x releases would be 
> very useful: I'm currently cherry-picking fixes from the 2.0 branch 
> because I don't know whether a 1.7.2 is bound to happen (and when).
> 
> I don't want to sound to too critical: having this repository is very 
> useful!
> 
> With my best regards, cheers,
> 
> OdyX
> 
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